Sovereign Silver

I don't get sick often, but I have been fighting something off for more than a week.  I have to say over the weekend, I lost the fight.  Hard.

I had been feeling under the weather (mostly congested) for about a week and then over the weekend the congestion increased even more and spread to my chest.  When I was first feeling ill, everything was still clear... over the weekend it turned green.  I had homework to complete and worked diligently through the weekend even though I was exhausted, cranky and just didn't feel good.

This morning I woke up with a wicked ear ache. I'll suck it up most of the time when I'm sick, but when my ears hurt, I am a baby.  I did some looking around online and found some herbal/natural earache remedies.  I didn't want to take the time to infuse olive oil with garlic or place half a clove of garlic in each ear (there were also some smelly onion based remedies as well).

I finally found a suggestion of putting a few drops of essential oil on cotton and placing that in your ears.  I used lavender (still pungent but not quite garlic).  I put the cotton in my ears, put on a hat to cover my ears and went to work..

I have to say that my ears hurt slightly less by the time I got to work, but overall I was feeling entirely worse.

I left work to go home and rest, but first I made a stop to the vitamin shop in Redwood City.  I picked up some Sovereign Silver nasal spray.

I've heard good things about colloidal silver, especially when it comes to fighting infection, in the natural health circle.  Sovereign Silver is a silver hydrosol.  Here is what their website has to say about it:

"A Bio-Active Silver Hydrosol™, such as Sovereign Silver or Argentyn 23, represents the ultimate refinement and purity of the colloidal silver category. It is the suspension of a high content (96%) of ultra-fine, positively charged silver ions (Ag+) in only pharmaceutical-grade purified water. This is not to be confused with ionic silver, an inferior form of neutral silver/silver salt that is in solution (dissolved), rather than in colloidal suspension. The positively charged silver ions (cations) in a Bio-Active Silver Hydrosol™ remain in suspension, maintaining their fully active state for use within the body."

A dose is 20 sprays for an adult up to 7 times a day depending on your needs. Here's the dosing schedule:

20 sprays x 7 times a day for short term immune support (when you are sick)

20 sprays x 5 times a day for long term immune support (long term stress on immune system)

20 sprays x 3 times a day for immune building (when you are surrounded by sick people)

20 sprays x 1 time a day for maintenance (otherwise healthy)

I took the first 20 sprays in the car before I left Redwood City.  

It started to feel like I was getting some of the crud moving, but I just assumed it was because I sprayed a liquid up my nose.  

I came home, made some tea and went to bed still feeling awful.  After an hour or two, I got up to use my netti pot (which really hadn't moved much mucous in the last few days).  The crud started breaking free.  

I used another dose of the Sovereign Silver spray and went back to bed. I've spent the entire afternoon/evening in bed, which I detest.  

I have to say that by about 8 p.m. I am breathing a bit better, the mucous is a far less toxic shade of green and my ears hurt far less than they did this morning.  

I'm not sure if it's placebo effect or what, but I definitely feel better than I did when I got up this morning and when I got home from work this afternoon.